MAMP

MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac or Windows which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server. Essentially, MAMP gives you all of the tools you need to run WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes. WAMP is composed of free and open-source and proprietary commercial software used together to run dynamic web sites on Apple Macintosh computers. MAMP is an acronym of Mac OS X, the operating system; Apache, the web server; MySQL, the database management system; and PHP, Perl, or Python, all programming languages used for web development.

I. System Requirements

You should have the following system requirements in order to run MAMP:

1. For OS X:

   – Apple OS X 10.6.6 or later

   – Mac with 64 bit CPU from Intel x84

2. For Windows:

   – Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 with minimum of 1GB RAM

   – .NET Framework 4.0

II. Installation

MAMP can be downloaded from the website and installed on your PC or Mac like any other application. The installer contains both MAMP and trail version of MAMP Pro which you can optionally chose or ignore during installation.

It is mandatory to have MAMP folder inside Application directory of OS X for the local site to work so you can’t move it outside Application. In Windows, MAMP will be installed under C:/MAMP.

III. Configuration

1. The initial MAMP screen will look like below and the Preferences option is used to setup the basic configuration like Server, Port, PHP version and Start/Stop options.

   

2. Once the configuration is done you can create a database using the phpMyAdmin tool available on a WebStart Page.

3. The last step is to install the required CMS like WordPress and connect the database. After the installation of CMS and database connection is completed, you can launch MAMP and open admin dashboard of your localhost site. The content of localhost then can be transferred to live environment using FTP.